Long time ago I mentioned the weblog package in FrontPage 2003 for creating weblogs in WSS environments (such as MySite). This package has to be deployed with FrontPage. One of our customers wanted to have this blog functionality in their portal for internal blogging, so there had to be a way to safe this site as template and add it to the Site Template gallery.
The standard blog option in FrontPage
Not that hard, but somehow this package cannot be deployed as Site Template; internal references are not set properly and the template just breaks… Also becasue it didn’t contain all desired features, I had to do it the custom way!
It was not that hard, all data that is stored in a blog can be stored in lists, and views and rights can be set quite easily. For some functions however, I created custom webparts to give the blog some more power. This is the result:
Current features:
- Add/Edit/Delete postings options (depending on user rights)
- Monthly archive
- Comments (enable/disable option)
- Author Info (no. of postings/comments/first post/picture)
- Admin webpart for admin functions
More features (catagories, rss, atom) will be added soon.